Bex Turner
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Research Project Support Officer at Bangor University
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Local human impacts interact with geography to drive benthic community depth zonation on contemporary coral reefs #ProcB - find out more from authors in our blog - royalsociety.org/blog/2025/06...
June 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Local human impacts interact with geography to drive benthic community depth zonation on contemporary coral reefs #ProcB - find out more from authors in our blog - royalsociety.org/blog/2025/06...
Image credit - Brian Zgliczynski
June 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Image credit - Brian Zgliczynski
June 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
π Read the full story:
βLocal human impacts interact with geography to drive benthic community depth zonation on contemporary coral reefsβ
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@remotereefs.bsky.social
βLocal human impacts interact with geography to drive benthic community depth zonation on contemporary coral reefsβ
@richardson-le.bsky.social
@remotereefs.bsky.social
Local human impacts interact with geography to drive benthic community depth zonation on contemporary coral reefs | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Changes in biophysical conditions and energetic resource supply across depths are predicted to promote or limit the abundance of different coral reef benthic groups. However, the degree to which regional differences in biophysical processes govern and ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
June 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
π Read the full story:
βLocal human impacts interact with geography to drive benthic community depth zonation on contemporary coral reefsβ
@richardson-le.bsky.social
@remotereefs.bsky.social
βLocal human impacts interact with geography to drive benthic community depth zonation on contemporary coral reefsβ
@richardson-le.bsky.social
@remotereefs.bsky.social
π₯πΆββοΈWe also found evidence of human-disrupted changes to benthic community depth zonation; patterns were inversed across depths and less distinct at populated compared to unpopulated islands within two ecoregions.
June 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
π₯πΆββοΈWe also found evidence of human-disrupted changes to benthic community depth zonation; patterns were inversed across depths and less distinct at populated compared to unpopulated islands within two ecoregions.
π₯πAt the three ecoregions where depth zonation existed, there was no universal βnaturalβ zonation pattern and the benthic groups most responsible for driving patterns of depth zonation differed across geographies.
June 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
π₯πAt the three ecoregions where depth zonation existed, there was no universal βnaturalβ zonation pattern and the benthic groups most responsible for driving patterns of depth zonation differed across geographies.
π₯πWe found across our Pacific Ocean study system, depth zonation did not always occur at the taxonomic resolution of our data (broad benthic groups). In fact, we only saw evidence of depth zonation at 3/6 ecoregions.
June 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
π₯πWe found across our Pacific Ocean study system, depth zonation did not always occur at the taxonomic resolution of our data (broad benthic groups). In fact, we only saw evidence of depth zonation at 3/6 ecoregions.
New paper π’ Coral reef depth zonation patterns are not 'universal' and may be disrupted by local human impacts.
We show evidence of spatially dependent effects of depth on benthic community structure across the Pacific Ocean.
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We show evidence of spatially dependent effects of depth on benthic community structure across the Pacific Ocean.
ππ§΅β¬οΈ
June 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
New paper π’ Coral reef depth zonation patterns are not 'universal' and may be disrupted by local human impacts.
We show evidence of spatially dependent effects of depth on benthic community structure across the Pacific Ocean.
ππ§΅β¬οΈ
We show evidence of spatially dependent effects of depth on benthic community structure across the Pacific Ocean.
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